This Day In Music - 18 September

18 September 1970 - Jimi Hendrix was pronounced dead on arrival at St. Mary Abbot's Hospital, London after an ambulance had been called to his basement flat in the Samarkand Hotel at 22 Lansdowne Crescent. Hendrix choked on his own vomit, after drinking wine and taking Vesperax sleeping pills. The guitarist had spent the night with his German girlfriend, Monika Dannemann, who gave her description of the evening at a Westminster inquest. Hendrix had left a message saying 'I need help bad man', on his manager's answerphone earlier that night. Hendrix's body was returned to his home town of Seattle, where his headstone includes a depiction of a Stratocaster guitar played by a right-handed guitarist, even though Hendrix was left-handed.